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Supineness

SUPI'NENESS

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Noun.
A lying with the face upward.
1.
Indolence; drowsiness; heedlessness. Many of the evils of life are owing to our own supineness.

Definition 2024


supineness

supineness

English

Noun

supineness (usually uncountable, plural supinenesses)

  1. the state of being supine
    • 1897, Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton:
      She almost taunted Fleda with supineness in not getting something out of somebody—in the same breath indeed in which she drenched her with a kind of appreciation more onerous to the girl than blame.